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Maildrop Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Privilege escalation

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

6.9

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

14 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

This host is installed Maildrop and is prone to Privilege Escalation vulnerability

Insight

Insight

The flaw is due to the error in the 'maildrop/main.C', when run by root with the '-d' option, uses the gid of root for execution of the mailfilter file in a user's home directory.

Affected Software

Affected Software

Maildrop version 2.3.0 and prior.

Solution

Solution

Upgrade to Maildrop version 2.4.0

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)